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Moms are outsourcing tedious household tasks to ChatGPT and selling courses teaching others to do the same. Where are all the dads?

1.4 billion iPhones. That's how many devices Apple will push Siri 2.0 to this fall—built on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model and an Extensions system that lets users route Siri's AI brain to Claude, ChatGPT, or Google's own Gemini directly. Tim Cook announced all of it at WWDC 2026 on June 8, his final WWDC keynote before handing the CEO role to hardware chief John Ternus in September. The story isn't just a better Siri. Apple is opening iOS as an AI distribution channel—the largest in history—and the developer implications are immediate. The Gemini Deal Apple licensed a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model from Google at a reported $1 billion per year. That's eight times the parameter count of Apple's current 150-billion-parameter on-device foundation model. Bloomberg first reported the deal in March 2026; WWDC confirmed it on stage. The private vs. cloud distinction matters here. Apple isn't routing your queries to Google's servers. The custom Gemini model runs on Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC) infrastructure—Apple-owned silicon, Apple-controlled software, with cryptographic attestation that prevents even Apple engineers from reading query contents. This is the same architecture Apple built for existing cloud AI features, now scaled up for a model eight times larger. What that means in practice: Siri can answer complex multi-step questions, reason over your personal context (calendar, messages, mail), and execute cross-app actions. None of it touches Google's data centers. The New Siri App Siri in iOS 27 ships as a standalone app. iMessage-style interface, persistent conversation threads, full chat history synced via iCloud. Two modes: quick invocation through the Dynamic Island (a glowing "Search or Ask" prompt) for fast queries, and the full chat app for extended conversations. Chat-mode Siri is a first-party ChatGPT competitor. Persistent threads, file attachments, on-screen awareness. Ask "what does this error mean?" while looking at an

Apple's WWDC nears: Here's what you can look forward to.

SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.

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The Air succeeds as a minimalist, reliable fitness tracker, but Google's AI Health Coach feels unnecessary.

Microsoft’s AI products aren’t selling and Github’s been plagued with troubles. WIRED spoke with VP Scott Hanselman about whether the company is in catch-up mode.

LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal and Prince Valluri discuss leveraging AI as a new execution model for large-scale engineering. They explain how to move beyond fragmented implementations by building platform abstractions for orchestration, structured context, and safe tooling like MCP. They share architectural insights from real-world coding, observation, and UI testing agents built at LinkedIn. By Karthik Ramgopal, Prince Valluri

Dropbox has unveiled Nova, an internal platform designed to orchestrate and operationalize AI coding agents across the company's engineering workflows. By Craig Risi

“Why wouldn’t you want to be in both Pepsi and Coke?” says one venture capitalist. “It’s the same here.”

On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email addresses that they controlled, and the agent complied. One attacker broke into the dormant Obama White House account and made pro-Iran…

AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.”

This series provides your roadmap for the machine age, exploring how to move from vulnerable prototypes to resilient systems through layered defense, robust MLOps, and integrated governance. By Claudio Masolo

Musk can't be trusted to protect X user privacy, public commenters warn FTC.

On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.

Apple's WWDC nears: Here's what you can look forward to.

Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford to hire a lawyer, and others have cases too weak or too small to interest one. She reads each one carefully, mindful of how daunting…

A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”

Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway.

Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.